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Bill Moyers
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Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
Former White House Press Secretary
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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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I own and operate a ferocious ego.
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I take We, the People seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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